The 'Directors Commentary Guidline' (Written Document) can be found beneath. This is what I had typed to use within the commentary but for restrictions in time and how fast the video is paced I could not fit everything in.
We used a low angle shot to commence with to show our male leads dominance in the relationship.
The two shot that followed was to show their unity within the argument, however here we had to speed up the slap due to complaints that it was not authentic.
We adapted the shaky-cam style to film the vocal performance and give it that niche complex look.
With a lot of filters we managed to get the bass section to seem more low key compared to the high key lighting at the start, black and white is what we settled on.
The zooming in effect upon the guitars and the fact it was edited to appear dark was due to the dark nature of the riffs being played.
We gradually changed the camera shots to go close and closer towards our male leads face to finally get to the point where he cringes at the taste of the vodka, a key shot to show he is not used to drinking.
The editing of the two eyes as a pair was to connote that the relationship showed in the video wasn’t over, as they are still as one.
We made the flash back parts brown and filtered to allow the audience to see that it was obviously just a re-cap and not a mis-use of the same shot.
This was to contrast between him not hitting his girlfriend and due to alcoholism he hits the stranger.
We initially applied focus upon the knife, then we layered the vocals over it to not make it obvious as to what was actually going on before filtering it out to a very dark red to still hide the knife but imply to what is being done.
The P.O.V shot is too allow the audience to view life through the male leads eyes and reflect upon how dizzy he felt and sick, this was also done by the filters, contrast and shaky approach.
The guitar solo was done with the vocals still visible to not lose the continuity of the lead singer.
We also had to implement parts of the story into it too as it is a slightly lengthy solo so did that with layering it on the beat while gradually zooming in the image on the editing suite to make the focal point the guitar.
We added the guitar riff part in-sync with the beat to add that extra feel of our video being heavy and powerful.
The stop-frame animated section is to show the guitars, that represent their relationship, splitting up before we show them die together using the split-screen technique to also show they die as one couple.
Our overall use of technology was mainly used during the construction stages. As the video and album itself proved most useful with the likes of technologies such as Final Cut Pro or Photoshop it was essential to have them. However, planning was not very dependant on technology and the main part which would have needed it would be internet access, which in todays world isnt very hard to come across. Finally, evaluating must require technology as without the use of programmes like FCP or PS we could not achieve such standards of work that can be discussed and argued through our evaluations.
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